Posted By Bill Morrison We have a number of sites in the UK, mostly constructed after 2001 all of which we lease, and are managed through managing agents. I am attempting to put together information on asbestos, and have a couple of questions please. What obligation does the managing agent have to carry out a asbestos survey/risk assessments if any? And would a letter from them stating that there is no asbestos on site be sufficient to of met our duties to identify any asbestos on site? Or do we need to carry out our own suvery/risk assesment. Many Thanks Bill

Posted By Dave Wilson Bill, if you read the guidance every non-domestic property has to be 'audited' 'inspected' or surveyed to discover whether you have Asi within your premises OR you can rely on other 'Good Evidence' that none exists! if found you then have to not just produce a register but a management policy / plan and then enforce it (manage it!) I can safely say that as these were constructed after the final statuitory ban of asbestos within the UK (99) that you can say with confidence that they do not and have not contained ACM's. I work for an Asbestos Company and we get asked to inspect post 2000 properties and we tell the client not to bother as we will charge you for writing one piece of paper saying that none exists and they then get the message.